** BONAIRE. 6250, Sept 23 at 0508, leapfrog mixing product of NHK Spanish 6080 over RNW Dutch 6165, another 85 kHz higher --- best heard yet, S9+18 and 100% readable, slight bit of Dutch audible underneath. The fundamentals were extremely strong. I hope I don`t see any more logs of Equatorial Guinea on 6250 unless it really reappears, formerly usually starting later than 0530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 23, before 1300:
15900, poor at 1231, none higher
14970, very good at 1235
13920, very good at 1244
13130, very good at 1244; none in the 12s
11500, fair at 1246, het and mixing presumed VOR Tajikistan
10300, very poor at 1247
7970, poor at 1247
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise MWDX Sept 23, UT:
600, Sept 23 at 1201, ID as ``XELN, Gómez Palacio, Durango … Radiorama Laguna``. I was hoping to nail down the unID heard yesterday, but instead we have another quandary. (GP is a sister city to Torreón across the state line in Coahuila, and they are really a single market known as `Laguna` for a dried-up lake.) The 600 station there is XEDN, Radio Mexicana per Cantú. I am not positive of the third letter, but it was a two-syllable one, not a D. I don`t find an XELN for any radio station, but it is the longtime call of channel 4 TV in Torreón. Maybe this is a recent shakeup on the local radio dial. Cantú:
600 XEDN La Mexicana Torreón, Coah. 1,000 1,000
BTW, the Radiorama group website, which may well be outdated, http://www.radiorama.com.mx/secciones.php?sec_id=32
also shows Torreón 600 as XEDN La Mexicana, but in a column under their sub-network Megacima.
610, Sept 23 at 1200, rhyming slogan ``G-S, la que más le ofrece`` (or maybe it was ``te``, familiarly) (I am never going to render Spanish letters `fonetically`, as how to pronounce them, and Spanish numbers, is the very least any Anglo, especially a DXer, should learn!). I hear this station often, but not the listed ``La Ley`` name, per Cantú:
610 XEGS La Ley Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
At 1202, into `Panorama Agropecuario` show, finally referring to Sinaloa, so I knew it was the same station. Same program title is on 650 XETNT at same time, but different show, I think. Mentioned approach of Huracán Hil(l)ary, Cat-4 already, first I`d heard of her.
1100, Sept 23 at 1213, música romántica, ``La Única, Mil Cien AM`` no mention of FM or calls, but must be this, per Cantú:
1100 XENAS Única + FM 96.1 Navojoa, Son. 1,000 500
Had one thousand, eleven hundred to itself briefly. (In Spanish one would not say ``once cientos``), a rather vacant channel despite CO
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, Sept 23 at 1210 UT, mix of Navajo and English by single OM announcer, including ``TGIF``, ``33 degrees, almost freezing``, ``6:10`` timecheck, i.e. KHAC NM/AZ.
1080, Sept 23 at 1223, nostalgia music, ``All of Me`` in fade of KRLD, and perpendicular to it; prime suspect westward is KGVY Green Valley AZ, NRC-AM Log listed as NOS format, 500-watt PSRA starting at 0800 ELT, but this was 5:23 am MST. Applying ``Eastern Local Time`` to Arizona is nothing but nonsensical. Do PSRAs for them start at 5 am MST since it`s equivalent to 6 am MDT?? I would not think so. As KRLD came back up, fast SAH ensued (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1583 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW 9479 Thursday Sept 22 after 2100; also audible before 2130 on WRMI 9955, and starting already at 2129 on WBCQ 7415. Also confirmed on WWRB 5051 (still no 3195), UT Friday Sept 22 after 0330. And on WRMI 9955 at 0514 with pulse jamming about equal level, occasional peaks by WRMI. Further WRMI times: Friday 1430, Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. On WTWW, UT Sunday 0400 on 5755; on WBCQ, UT Monday 0300v on 5110v-CUSB. On WRN via SiriusXM 120, Saturday & Sunday 1730, Sunday 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 23, before 1300:
15900, poor at 1231, none higher
14970, very good at 1235
13920, very good at 1244
13130, very good at 1244; none in the 12s
11500, fair at 1246, het and mixing presumed VOR Tajikistan
10300, very poor at 1247
7970, poor at 1247
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sunrise MWDX Sept 23, UT:
600, Sept 23 at 1201, ID as ``XELN, Gómez Palacio, Durango … Radiorama Laguna``. I was hoping to nail down the unID heard yesterday, but instead we have another quandary. (GP is a sister city to Torreón across the state line in Coahuila, and they are really a single market known as `Laguna` for a dried-up lake.) The 600 station there is XEDN, Radio Mexicana per Cantú. I am not positive of the third letter, but it was a two-syllable one, not a D. I don`t find an XELN for any radio station, but it is the longtime call of channel 4 TV in Torreón. Maybe this is a recent shakeup on the local radio dial. Cantú:
600 XEDN La Mexicana Torreón, Coah. 1,000 1,000
BTW, the Radiorama group website, which may well be outdated, http://www.radiorama.com.mx/secciones.php?sec_id=32
also shows Torreón 600 as XEDN La Mexicana, but in a column under their sub-network Megacima.
610, Sept 23 at 1200, rhyming slogan ``G-S, la que más le ofrece`` (or maybe it was ``te``, familiarly) (I am never going to render Spanish letters `fonetically`, as how to pronounce them, and Spanish numbers, is the very least any Anglo, especially a DXer, should learn!). I hear this station often, but not the listed ``La Ley`` name, per Cantú:
610 XEGS La Ley Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
At 1202, into `Panorama Agropecuario` show, finally referring to Sinaloa, so I knew it was the same station. Same program title is on 650 XETNT at same time, but different show, I think. Mentioned approach of Huracán Hil(l)ary, Cat-4 already, first I`d heard of her.
1100, Sept 23 at 1213, música romántica, ``La Única, Mil Cien AM`` no mention of FM or calls, but must be this, per Cantú:
1100 XENAS Única + FM 96.1 Navojoa, Son. 1,000 500
Had one thousand, eleven hundred to itself briefly. (In Spanish one would not say ``once cientos``), a rather vacant channel despite CO
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, Sept 23 at 1210 UT, mix of Navajo and English by single OM announcer, including ``TGIF``, ``33 degrees, almost freezing``, ``6:10`` timecheck, i.e. KHAC NM/AZ.
1080, Sept 23 at 1223, nostalgia music, ``All of Me`` in fade of KRLD, and perpendicular to it; prime suspect westward is KGVY Green Valley AZ, NRC-AM Log listed as NOS format, 500-watt PSRA starting at 0800 ELT, but this was 5:23 am MST. Applying ``Eastern Local Time`` to Arizona is nothing but nonsensical. Do PSRAs for them start at 5 am MST since it`s equivalent to 6 am MDT?? I would not think so. As KRLD came back up, fast SAH ensued (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1583 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW 9479 Thursday Sept 22 after 2100; also audible before 2130 on WRMI 9955, and starting already at 2129 on WBCQ 7415. Also confirmed on WWRB 5051 (still no 3195), UT Friday Sept 22 after 0330. And on WRMI 9955 at 0514 with pulse jamming about equal level, occasional peaks by WRMI. Further WRMI times: Friday 1430, Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730. On WTWW, UT Sunday 0400 on 5755; on WBCQ, UT Monday 0300v on 5110v-CUSB. On WRN via SiriusXM 120, Saturday & Sunday 1730, Sunday 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)